Need to lose some timber !

[Bobby Spray]

Yes, weighing first thing butt naked!

I had taken a handful of other weights and looked like I was heading for more like 6/7lbs. Then I got stuck into the drink just before the weekend, which I suspect knocked me back. I normally find it incredibly difficult to lose weight, so 4lbs without too much struggle is a plus anyway. I have been adding bits of fat here and there which is helping, I'm sure.

Well done - you have made a start. I too found myself good bit overweight. a combination of high carb foods and beer had pushed my blood pressure up dangerously. After 2 months on the Keto diet, I had lost over a stone and lowered my blood pressure. By cutting out all carbs and replacing them with fats, I had also lost the creaking and pain in my joints. I also gave up alcohol for a couple of months. There is plenty of help out here - see the Keto Clean eating UK community on Facebook.

 

[davidroberts30]

Well done - you have made a start. I too found myself good bit overweight. a combination of high carb foods and beer had pushed my blood pressure up dangerously. After 2 months on the Keto diet, I had lost over a stone and lowered my blood pressure. By cutting out all carbs and replacing them with fats, I had also lost the creaking and pain in my joints. I also gave up alcohol for a couple of months. There is plenty of help out here - see the Keto Clean eating UK community on Facebook.

welldone
i cut out wheat and gluten and anything processed, trying a low carb diet
i was 94.5kg xmas time,80kg this morning
dropped to 85kg over about 3 months then the long game to the last 5 kgs

 

[Woolless]

welldone
i cut out wheat and gluten and anything processed, trying a low carb diet
i was 94.5kg xmas time,80kg this morning
dropped to 85kg over about 3 months then the long game to the last 5 kgs

Maybe your body wants to be 85kg?

 

[DaveGrohl]

In my opinion , having lost lots of weight at various times in my life ( and subsequently put it back on again)
It’s a fairly simple calculation
A pound of Body fat is about 3000 calories
So if you eat 3500 calories more than your daily maintainence requirement you’ll put on a pound of fat
Conversely if you eat 3500 calories below your maintenance requirement then you’ll lose a pound of fat.
So long as you balance and vary your food intake, ( fruit, vegetables, fish, vitamins etc) it doesn’t matter much what you actually eat as your body converts food to calories,…,

so if your daily requirement for maintainence is 2500 calories and you want to lose 2lb a week ….. ( 2 lb = 7000 calories worth)
2500 x 7 days = 17500 calories
17500 calories - 7000 = 10500 calories
Divided by 7 = 1500/day
Eat about 1500 calories a day
so
Count your calories…. Every single one
( there are Apps that do this)

soon learn what foods have lots of bulk and taste with few calories !

this is not advice…I’m not a food afvisor/medical person ! It’s just my opinion and sharing what works for me !!!!!

Calories are a dead dodo. It sounds like counting calories is a good idea but it completely ignores what weight gain/loss and general health is all about; insulin resistance. Try googling that, and then when you’ve done that google Sam Feltham and his calorie experiment on himself.

Calories are a fundamentally bad idea, as they don’t actually reflect what the body does with the food. Farmers should know this through DE and ME values. Farming has been using those values for many decades and yet humans are stuck in the dark ages when it comes to food digestion (at a public health advice level anyway). Eg. 30% of the calorific value of protein is used up in the digestive process, so the stated calories are always too high. Compare that to sugar or starch. A stick of raw celery is 6 calories. Cook it and it becomes 30 calories.

Social media is full of people who move away from eating mainly carbs and eat fat and protein instead. They’re astonished that the weight falls off them and hunger pangs recede into the distance. No coincidence.

 

[davidroberts30]

Maybe your body wants to be 85kg?

or maybe i was relapsing
By the book 81kg is obese for me

 

[Woolless]

or maybe i was relapsing
By the book 81kg is obese for me

I'm not sure I would go by that. Lightest I've been as an adult was 18st at the end of the summer before I went to university, having worked physically fairly hard all summer. I think this would still be classed as well in the overweight category but I would think of it as my fighting weight, if not a little heavier.

 

[davidroberts30]

I'm not sure I would go by that. Lightest I've been as an adult was 18st at the end of the summer before I went to university, having worked physically fairly hard all summer. I think this would still be classed as well in the overweight category but I would think of it as my fighting weight, if not a little heavier.

Im not that fit at the moment tho
Stopped running xmas time as hip sore and then hurt my back a few minths ago too

 

[Whitewalker]

Get a young active girlfriend. look like I got beat to the idea.

move more, eat less ! …… it really is that simple

focus on getting macro nutrition right - i highly recommend the my fitness pal app to track food and help do this

re fitness - find something enjoy, its the only way you will keep it up

Think these two are on a similar vein

 

[Tomo23]

Just dragging this thread back. I need to lose some weight around the midrif. Currently on pills for acid/inflamed esophagus. The doctor says it's my weight. Ready through this thread definitely says I'm on to many carbs.

Porridge, yoghurt and 2 rounds of toast for breakfast. Dinners are fine as I get a good cooked dinner at work. Tea tends to be sandwiches probably 4 nights out of 7. I'm going to replace the sandwich nights with chicken salads.

I like the idea mentioned somewhere of omelette for breakfast to get the protein from the eggs but how are people eating the bacon for breakfast. My first thought when bacon is involved is to reach for the bread bag.

Replied to tepapa as I see you mentioned egg and bacon for breakfast.

To reduce the "timber" you need a calorie deficit.

They say calorie counting is pointless but doing it for a few weeks or a month will give you a picture of where your calories are coming from.
You burn more calories in your day to day life then you ever will excercising. So concentrate on what you eat rather then trying to burn off excess at the gym. That doesn't mean starve yourself it means choose what you eat.

You need a high protein intake, well higher then the "average" UK diet. That means eggs and bacon for breakfast not cereal and toast, and your meals should contain meat/fish and veg. Cut out the cereals, the bread and the pasta and the vegetable oils and you'll feel better and be healthier.

 

[Farmer Roy]

Just dragging this thread back. I need to lose some weight around the midrif. Currently on pills for acid/inflamed esophagus. The doctor says it's my weight. Ready through this thread definitely says I'm on to many carbs.

Porridge, yoghurt and 2 rounds of toast for breakfast. Dinners are fine as I get a good cooked dinner at work. Tea tends to be sandwiches probably 4 nights out of 7. I'm going to replace the sandwich nights with chicken salads.

I like the idea mentioned somewhere of omelette for breakfast to get the protein from the eggs but how are people eating the bacon for breakfast. My first thought when bacon is involved is to reach for the bread bag.

Replied to tepapa as I see you mentioned egg and bacon for breakfast.

Err, bacon & eggs on a plate, with a knife & fork ?
Get rid of the bread. Don’t eat it. Probably one of the worst things that has happened to human health over the last few thousand years.
I’m saying this as a milling wheat grower . . .

 

[Whitewalker]

Eggs are easy and fast to cook in many ways . I'd rather like one Now

 

[Tomo23]

I suppose it's viewing bread as an easy way of filling you up. A couple rashers of bacon aren't going to do that.
I need to get in my head about eating the right stuff and not just being a case of filling myself up till dinnertime.

 

[davidroberts30]

I suppose it's viewing bread as an easy way of filling you up. A couple rashers of bacon aren't going to do that.
I need to get in my head about eating the right stuff and not just being a case of filling myself up till dinnertime.

Your "filling you up"is all in your head and a carb "high"
Try just 3 bacon and 3 egg for breakfast for a couple of weeks you soon break the habit

 

[tepapa]

Currently on pills for acid/inflamed esophagus. The doctor says it's my weight.

Cut out the majority of your carbs from Bread, pasta, biscuits, cakes, porridge. Cut it out completely for a bit, week or so. Then since it's hard to eat a modern diet without it, you can start eating a bit but only very limited.

It's cured my acid reflux. I will eat a bacon sandwich now and again or couple of slices of toast but it's once a month or if someone offers it rather then being a every day staple. I can now also manage a shop brought sandwich for dinner if I need to.

Eat eggs with bacon and sausage.
Cheese omelettes are as quick and easy as anything.
And pancakes made with almond flour rather than wheat flour.

 

[tepapa]

Your "filling you up"is all in your head and a carb "high"
Try just 3 bacon and 3 egg for breakfast for a couple of weeks you soon break the habit

I'm not on full carnivore diet but it is predominantly meat. It is amazing how cutting the carbs, cuts the hunger. A meat meal either for evening meal or breakfast does reduce/eliminate hunger pains or food craving for a big part of the day.

 

[Tomo23]

I'm definitely going to do the omelette idea. I can make one quicker than a bowl of porridge.

 

[tepapa]

I'm definitely going to do the omelette idea. I can make one quicker than a bowl of porridge.

And almond flour pancakes. With eggs and milk. They don't stick together very well. Add mixed fruit. Raspberries, strawberries and blueberries. (When in season .

 

[ARW]

I suppose it's viewing bread as an easy way of filling you up. A couple rashers of bacon aren't going to do that.
I need to get in my head about eating the right stuff and not just being a case of filling myself up till dinnertime.

Do not buy the bread, then it’s simple just eat the full pack of bacon instead

 

[Tomo23]

Do not buy the bread, then it’s simple just eat the full pack of bacon instead

I'd have wean the wife off aswell so theres no bread in the cupboard, she eats more bread than me.

Does it make much difference as to how your cooking bacon. Fried or grilled?

 

[Mur Huwcun]

Often have bacon, scrambled eggs and beans for lunch. Stay away from bread and only sometimes on a weekend will have some toast or a toasted bun. Can’t remember when I last made a sandwich for myself but will eat one if offered one or someone has made one for me then watch what I eat rest of day or try to walk/work a bit more.